Fernando Meyer

My IDE through the years

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 | IDE, Mac, Programming, computer science, language, linux, operating systems, university | No Comments

Today, after read something about the Kawa IDE, I tried to remember these I’ve used through the years.

• Turbo Pascal - late 1997
• Turbo C++ - 98/99
• DJGPP - late 99
• Emacs - 2000 - C++
• Kawa - 2001 - Java
• Netbeans- 2002/2003
• Eclipse - 2003/2006
• Visual Studio - 2006 - Yes I got a project in C#
• IDEA intellij + textmate - 2007

Maybe I missed something, but it’s just to get an overview.

Special tips building and debugging GWT based UI on Fedora Core 6

Friday, May 4th, 2007 | Java, Uncategorized, debug, google, gwt, linux, opensource, web | No Comments

When launching Google web toolkit you get this error, org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles (java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError?: mozilla-1.7.12/libxpcom.so: Can’t load IA 32-bit .so on a IA 32-bit platform)

FC6 has libstdc++.so.6.0.8 out of the box. Many times yum is smart enough to get the “compat” version of a lib when a newer one is installed, so I rolled the dice and tried:

yum install libstdc++.so.5

When launching the Eclipse debugger you get this error,
ERROR: transport error 202: gethostbyname: unknown host “transport.c”,L41?
ERROR: JDWP Transport dt_socket failed to initialize, TRANSPORT_INIT(510) “debugInit.c”,L500?

To correct the problem, just add the following line to /etc/hosts :

127.0.0.1 localhost

Probably it will be useful for you, as was for me.

Linux Kernel in a Nutshell is now Creative Commons: free pdf download

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 | computer science, kernel, linux, opensource, operating systems, university | No Comments

Written by a leading developer and maintainer of the Linux kernel, Linux Kernel in a Nutshell is a comprehensive overview of kernel configuration and building, a critical task for Linux users and administrators.The book is available for download in either PDF or DocBook format for the entire book, or by the individual chapter.

To quote of the book’s author:

If you want to know how to build, configure, and install a custom Linux kernel on your machine, buy this book. It is written by someone who spends every day building, configuring, and installing custom kernels as part of the development process of this fun, collaborative project called Linux. I’m especially proud of the chapter on how to figure out how to configure a custom kernel based on the hardware running on your machine. This is an essential task for anyone wanting to wring out the best possible speed and control of your hardware.

http://www.kroah.com/lkn/